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Robot intelligence should be centralized in the cloud
For millions of humanoids, most intelligence should live in the cloud—a capable model batch-processing at high efficiency does planning and long-horizon tasks, pushing commands to robots that interpolate actions and handle only local sensing like weight and force—because on-device compute can't batch, can't be as intelligent, and would divert scarce leading-edge low-power chips from AI data centers.
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Dylan PatelEvidence Quote
“So now that 200 gigawatts gets lower if you’re deploying millions of humanoids.”
Source
Dwarkesh Patel Podcast - Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute— Dwarkesh Patel PodcastCreated: 6/13/2026, 3:34:26 AM
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